Saturday, 19 September 2015

Today I spent one day documenting the Telegrafberget site were we cleared off vegetation earlier this summer. The light was exeptionally good, resulting in some great photos of this Optical Telegraph station from the Crimean war on Kimitoön SW Finland.

The building remains consist of three separate features (I-III). In the upcoming weeks we will try to get photos of the site from above using a drone.

Wednesday, 2 September 2015

But we managed to do some 6 hours of intense fieldwork despite of the wind and the rain.

Autumn weather in DL Hanko today. Photo Yle.

Many interesting items of both military and civilian nature today although I can only post a few here because of having most of them securely packed down in plastic bags in the fridge (awaiting conservation).

Another great day with a multitude of different fnds illustrating the daily activities of the German WW2 transition camp. The many different types of finds occasionally makes the site very difficult to excavate.

Cans and buckets litter the WW2 dump area.

Among the food cans we found aa awesome range of personal and other artefacts including many paper items.

A package of "Juno Zigarretten"

The finds included leather items, wine- ink- and other bottles, different types of bakelite items as well as combs, mirror fragments, land pins and luggage tags and even a large candle holder from a Christmas tree.

"Ich hab noch einen Koffer in Berlin"

Christmas tree candle holder!

Wine bottle coming up :)

The weather report for tomorrow suggests it will be a rainy day. Because of the many paper items in the soil digging in the rain is not an option.

Surprisingly large amounts of 70-year old paper stuff has been found during the excavations :)